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Artist / Designer / Photographer
Year
Circa 1917
Wellspring
Special Collection
Publisher
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0
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English
Hebrew
English
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The Balfour Declaration of Nov. 2, 1917, was the British government’s statement of public support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. (This image appeared in a school workbook.) It was a hand-delivered letter from foreign secretary Lord Arthur Balfour to Lord Walter Rothschild, president of the English Zionist Federation. Rothschild said the Declaration was the most momentous historical Jewish occasion in 1,800 years: for the first time since the Roman dispersion of from Palestine in 70 A.D., aspirations for a national home were recognized. The declaration was celebrated across the world—children were named Balfoura, and a cottage area north of Toronto was named after it: Balfour Beach.